#threw some gold eyeshadow on the lad because he's had a hard life and deserves to feel pretty sometimes

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Putting my new digital-art setup through its paces with a full-render of Morenthal (played by the delightful @gamblord) from @causeimdanjones DnD 5e stream Dan Jones & Dragons. In his fancy Gala dress from Session 24 & Session 25.

More Flower Crowns Gala Outfits: Gelnek | Hobson

Extra design notes under the cut:

Since Morenthal picked his dress with the explicit intent of smuggling tools and weapons past security at the ball, I thought it would be a fun exercise to design an entire ensemble with Rogue utility in mind.

I really like the design that Dan and Gamb came up with for Morenthal's official stream portrait, so my interpretation was mostly just additions and minor tweaks to what they gave us.

His dress-bodice comes almost directly from the stream art, with a little extra padding for insurance this lad gets stabbed a worrying amount. I wanted to change the pattern on the fabric to something with Wolfsbane blooms (his official garland-flower) in it but I couldn't figure out anything I liked, so I ended up using Gamb's dress-inspo picture as a starting point and colour-picked the purple palette from the Wolfsbane garland on his main portrait instead. It took me the entire Session 25 stream to render this top. Never again.

Since I wanted the dress to suit Morenthal's andro-masc bodyshape, and also be a little restrained to suit his role on Team Infiltration I decided to make the torso the feature piece and pair it with a flowy straight-skirt without many ostentatious frills or ruffles. As he was going to end up sneaking around (and maybe fighting), I tried to make the skirt exactly floor-length so that he would be at less risk of it catching on things, being stepped on or being used to tangle/pin his legs.

The long black gloves were partly inspired by @jaxpool's excellent costume sketches from Session 24. Since Morenthal planned on doing rogue nonsense, the name of the game was hiding things, so I adjusted them to let him smuggle lockpicks around without restricting the movement in his fingers. I also added matching black boots for even more hiding spaces, while designing a heel that he could still run, jump, climb and fight in. After Gamb said that Morenthal brought Little Guy's whistle with him, I figured Little Guy himself had to be tagging along somewhere. Drawing him hanging out in Morenthal's boot brought me an unreasonable amount of delight.

The gold earring is 100% straight from the design Gamb and Dan created. Since that set gold as his accessory colour, I added matching gold buckles to the boots and gloves. (That also let me add wrist/ankle straps for a more secure fit, which was on-theme for the form/fuction design sense).

The gold eyeshadow was one of my additions. Morenthal is pretty comfortable bucking gender conventions (Jax also gave him makeup in their version, and this is not the first time he's hopped into a dress on-stream) and I wanted to give him a little bit of face-glitz to continue the gold theme. Originally I experimented with some subtle eyeliner on his lower lids but that ended up closing off his eyes and really aging his face, so I changed gears and went with a shimmery upper-lid shadow instead. I think it looks pretty nice on him.